Sentences with phrase «including forced labor»

A 2014 New York Times investigation found that workers on the NYU - Abu Dhabi campus faced «grim» conditions, including forced labor.

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Responding to the ban, Kuwaiti Deputy Foreign Minister Khalid Sulaiman Al - Jarallah expressed «the keenness of the State of Kuwait to protect the rights of all residents, including the Filipino community, within the framework of the labor laws in force in the State of Kuwait,» according to a government statement translated from Arabic.

Those standards include prohibiting child harassment and abuse or forced labor, and ensuring fair pay and benefits.

Wal - Mart's critics — including a group of its workers backed by labor unions - say the retailer pays its hourly workers too little, forcing some to seek government assistance that effectively provides the company with an indirect taxpayer subsidy.

In addition to its corporate diversity, Alphabet Inc. ranked strongly for worker pay and benefits, including a flexible paid time off policy, and a strong 401 (k) savings program, and for its supply chain impact (the company has committed to reasonable worker hours, and to policies such as no forced or child labor).

Then... this is the best part... he made it clear that a 6.5 percent unemployment rate would not necessarily be the threshold for raising rates, then went on a long discussion of the conditions under which he would NOT raise rates, including if the unemployment rate dropped mostly due to cyclical declines in the labor force participation rate rather than gains in unemployment, as well as persistently low inflation.

The underemployment rate, which includes 5.2 million involuntary part - time workers who'd rather be full - timers, fell to a cyclical low of 8.4 percent, though this too reflects May's labor force exits.

It would mean that German industrialists and their government allies, who have attempted to grow not by investing in productivity but by forcing German workers and their European partners to subsidize their unit labor costs, after having caused huge damage to peripheral Europe's balance sheets and European workers everywhere, including in Germany, will now pass the cost onto the rest of the world.

[158] Other causes include the rise in non-cash benefits as a share of worker compensation (which aren't counted in CPS income data), immigrants entering the labor force, statistical distortions including the use of different inflation adjusters by the BLS and CPS, productivity gains being skewed toward less labor - intensive sectors, income shifting from labor to capital, a skill gap - driven wage disparity, productivity being falsely inflated by hidden technology - driven depreciation increases and import price measurement problems, and / or a natural period of adjustment following an income surge during aberrational postwar circumstances.

The agency's mission includes oversight of work - related benefits and rights and improving working conditions for people at all levels of the U.S. labor force.

People with disabilities demonstrate the same passion, independence and self - direction as all Americans, and given certain characteristics — including being on average older and less educated — it is not surprising that the rate of self - employment for people with disabilities in the labor force in 2011 was about 50 percent higher than the corresponding rate for people without disabilities -LSB-...]

The governor chose a task force that includes well - connected labor leaders.

The unemployment rate among the insured labor force is well below that reported monthly by the Labor Department because claims are approved for the most part only for job losers, not the job leavers and labor force reentrants included in the monthly relabor force is well below that reported monthly by the Labor Department because claims are approved for the most part only for job losers, not the job leavers and labor force reentrants included in the monthly reLabor Department because claims are approved for the most part only for job losers, not the job leavers and labor force reentrants included in the monthly relabor force reentrants included in the monthly report.

Domestic workers face a wide range of serious abuses and labor exploitation, including excessive working hours without rest, non-payment of wages, forced confinement, physical and sexual abuse, forced labor, and trafficking.

Of course she says nothing about her husband's policy of overlooking human rights violations by China, including the slave labor of uncounted thousands and forced abortions for pregnant women with more than one child.

The numbers for unemployment and labor force participation include noncitizen residents — and of the American citizens, many are foreign - born.

, including the sinister notice that one Adoniram «was in charge of the forced labor» (v. 6) We also read of the division of the kingdom into twelve districts (shrewdly violating tribal divisions in a well - calculated effort to break down tribal loyalties) each with its overseer charged with the responsibility of providing sustenance for the royal establishment — a simple daily diet (v. 22 f.) conservatively estimated as sufficient to feed between four and five thousand persons!

One definition states that human trafficking is the recruitment, transportation, harboring or receipt of people for the purposes of slavery, forced labor (including bonded labor or debt bondage) and servitude.

Exploitation shall include, at a minimum, the exploitation of the prostitution of others or other forms of sexual exploitation, forced labor or services, slavery or practices similar to slavery, servitude or the removal of organs.»

In this capacity she provides expert technical guidance on a variety of labor topics, including approaches for assisting vulnerable and at - risk youth and child and forced laborers.

Evidence in the case against alleged sex cult leader Keith Raniere and his accused sidekick, «Smallville» actress Allison Mack, will include not only victims of sex trafficking and forced labor...

Jeffries has a long list of labor supporters, including some GOTV heavyweights like 1199 SEIU, HTC and the Working Families Party (still a considerable canvassing force, even without Data & Field Services).

The governor chose a task force that includes well - connected labor leaders.

In another aspect of the alleged schemes, officials at COR Development paid tens of thousands of dollars to Percoco — using Howe as a pass - through to conceal the payments — in exchange for official favors that included reversing a state decision that would have forced the company to enter into a costly «labor peace agreement»; freeing up a backlog of state funds that had been promised to the developer; and securing a $ 5,000 raise for Steven L. Aiello, the son of COR president Steven F. Aiello.

Important linkages include training providers and higher education institutions, which provide the labor force with high quality, up - to - date skill sets.

This task force includes the U.S. Attorney's Office, the Erie County Sheriff's Office, the US Dept. of Homeland Security Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), the FBI, the US Dept. of Labor, Wage and Hour, US Border Patrol, the International Institute of Buffalo, Farmworker Legal Services, as well as the Missing and Exploited Children.

«Among other items, the agenda will include a revised version of the Education, Labor and Family Assistance Article VII bill that I was forced to veto earlier this year to prevent an unaffordable increase in school aid, an appropriation bill to authorize distribution of $ 607 million in federal Education Jobs Fund money to school districts, and necessary legislation to reorganize the New York City Off - Track Betting Corporation.»

THAT NYSUT establish a task force which shall include member - participants in each of the public retirement systems, including the retirement plan trustees, if applicable, to discuss possible methods, including legislation, to harness and use public pension plan resources to improve poor labor practices and to provide workers the right to organize and bargain collectively in enterprises controlled by private equity funds, as well as other corporate interests; and

These numbers include only those in the labor force, excluding those who are retired or not seeking work.

According to the report, an estimated 837,900 individuals in the United States held SEH research doctoral degrees in 2013, and nearly 735,900 of them were in the labor force; this includes those employed full time or part time and unemployed individuals actively seeking work.

The plans for technological innovation are small but important pieces of Prime Minister Shinzo Abe's Growth Strategy, which also includes recommendations to streamline the agricultural sector, promote the participation of women in the labor force, and enhance the competitiveness of Japan's manufacturers.

nTIDE focuses on the key parameters, including labor force participation rate, the employment - to - population ratio, and the percent looking for work.

Although the term «concentration camps» is often used to describe all Nazi camps, there were actually a number of different kinds of camps, including transit camps, forced - labor camps, and death camps.

A Labor Economics Office NT report (Department of Employment, March, 2015) attributes high teacher turnover to several factors, including the high cost of living in remote areas, and relocation due to spousal employment in industries such as the Defence Force.

Moreover, adjusting the data for other factors that are potentially related to growth, including aspects of international trade, private and public investment, and political instability, leaves the effect of having a quality labor force unchanged.

To realize Indonesia's economic potential, the country has to address critical challenges Including the projected shortage of 60 million skilled and semi-skilled workers in its labor force.

Stalin's plan for society was enforced by a huge secret police force and included the mass execution of political opponents, the forced starvation of millions of peasants, and a vast network of prison camps (gulags) erected to house slave labor.

Suspects include female participation in the labor force; changing social norms; young male isolation from the workforce, schools, and other societal institutions; and government subsidization of single parenthood.

The outcomes include both school - based achievements, such as students» course - taking and their level of educational attainment, and students» later experiences in the labor force.

An example of this credentialing included strenuous labor force training found in Career and Technical Education and Apprenticeship programs.

Her research interests include income inequality, infrastructure investment, economic development, education policy, and the labor force.

The second, a household survey of residents, measures labor force characteristics including the number of DC residents who are employed regardless of the jurisdiction in which their job is located.

Tectonic social changes — including demographic shifts that have placed most women with school - age children in the labor force, research breakthroughs in the learning sciences and in socio - emotional and brain development, and daunting national achievement worries — have all converged to place a major new emphasis on the quality of a child's learning experiences throughout the typical school day, after school, weekends, and across the year, including summers.

Torlakson's task force comprises a broad range of voices including labor, academia, parent groups and educators that are engaged in the development.

This has included establishing an interagency task force consisting of 16 different federal government department and agencies, including Transportation, OMB, Treasury, Commerce, Interior, EPA, Agriculture, Labor, Energy, the Department of Defense, Veterans Affairs, the Council of Environmental Quality, the Education department and others.

It examines forced as well as voluntary migrations and places these movements within their historical context, including ethnic cleansing, population exchanges, and demographic engineering in the service of nation - building as well as more recent labor migration due to globalization.Inside, readers will find the work of international experts that cuts across national and disciplinary lines.

Some locals were captured to perform forced labor in Lombok, including the construction of roads.

We want to be smart about how we utilize all of our resources, including the labor force.

Joining forces with writers and intellectuals, these men and women — who came together at the progressive John Reed Club, founded in New York City directly after the crash — were dedicated to creating work that tackled a range of socially conscious themes, including class struggle, labor organizing, immigration, socialist mysticism, utopian communities, racial justice, and the Spanish Civil War, among others.

CSIRO announced that it will make budget cuts, including to its labor force.